The Lilac Fairy Book, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35, sentence 10

For a time they desired nothing more, but when the next year began they grew weary.

Who acts: dwellings, next year · What happens: desire, begin, grow · To what, where: nothing

This is a sentence of «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, The Lilac Fairy Book, part 35. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dwellings, next year), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	For	for	ADP	_	3 time	case
2	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	3 time	det
3	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 desired	obl
4	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 desired	nsubj
5	desired	desire	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	nothing	nothing	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Neg	5 desired	obj
7	more	more	ADV	Degree=Cmp	5 desired	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 grew	punct
9	but	but	CCONJ	_	16 grew	cc
10	when	when	SCONJ	_	14 began	mark
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 year	det
12	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 year	amod
13	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 began	nsubj
14	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 grew	advcl
15	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 grew	nsubj
16	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 desired	conj
17	weary	weary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 grew	xcomp
18	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 desired	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	desire	past	dwellings = dwelling	nothing	time		vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot nothing=Theme
2	begin	past	the next year				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality
3	grow	past	dwellings = dwelling			weary property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

Text: «The Lilac Fairy Book» by Andrew Lang, Project Gutenberg book 3454 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.

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